US Patent Issued to Advanced Functional Fabrics of America on April 29 for "Sensing fiber for monitoring rope condition, and method of manufacturing the same" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,122, issued on April 29, was assigned to Advanced Functional Fabrics of America Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Sensing fiber for monitoring rope condition, and method of manufacturing the same" was invented by Jimmy Nguyen (Lowell, Mass.), Edin Insanic (Belmont, Mass.) and Kristina McCarthy (Oxford, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for monitoring performance of a rope includes a drawn form factor that has a plurality of radio-frequency identification (RFID) devices (e.g., embedded therein). The form factor is integrated into a core portion of the rope. Each RFID device is configured to transmit a corresponding message to at le...